Do these Dutch girls names work in other languages?
We just found out that our October baby will be a girl 🥰 So now we started to narrow down our list of names. We are both from the Netherlands and our current top choices are common (or at least not very uncommon) names in our country. However, I would like to know if these names have a strange meaning in other languages (or maybe sound a lot like other words).
Our current top choices are:
Nienke (pronounced Neen-kuh)
Lieke (pronounced Lee-kuh)
Tesse (pronounced Tess-uh)
Jiska (pronounced Yis-kah)
With our world becoming more and more international, I would not want to accidentally embarrass our child with a name that would raise a lot of eyebrows in other countries 😅
I am aware that these Dutch names might not be very easy to pronounce for non Dutch speakers, but this is not necessarily a dealbreaker (I work in an international organization and have a quite "difficult" Dutch name myself, and it never felt like an issue for me). Having to explain how to pronounce her name is ok, but her name having a very strange meaning in other languages is not something I would want for her.
Love to hear how these names sound to you - and where you are from! (And name suggestions are always welcome of course, our list is not set in stone yet)